Mount Erebus

Mt Erebus is extremely remote, high and an active volcano.

Probably.

Erebus crepuscularis was created in 1758.

These two features of Ross Island, Antarctica are less than 70 miles apart.

These mountains were discovered in January 1841 by Sir James Clark Ross, who named them after his ships, Erebus and Terror. Ross Island after Sir James Clark Ross

Mt Erebus is so remote, with nothing around it except ice -- two research stations lie about 70 miles away -- that there is 'nothing' to 'damage'.

You can found Erebus using these coordinates: 77.5297° S, 167.1533° E, which puts it in East Antarctica.

Mt Erebus is a remote, active volcano. Your survival skills must be top drawer.

Mt Erebus lies on Ross Island, Antarctica, in that area.

Mix up of coordinates in the flight computer combined with a special antarctic whiteout condition, flying lower than leagally allowed, and flight crew not correctly trained for antarctic flight. As is the case with most aircraft accidents its not just one factor but a series of things that caused it. When the ground proximity warning went off the pilots could have climbed fast enough to avoid the crash but due to the whiteout condition the pilots had no idea they were headed at a mountain, and thinking they were flying over open water due to the coordinate error, did as they were trained and started a slow 15 degree climb which wasnt fast enough to miss the mountain. The rules for how low a passenger jet can fly allows for no less than 6000 feet for a number of safety reasons such as stall recovery and accidently straying into mountains. This flight was flying under 1500 feet for sightseeing purposes (they had special permission to fly at 4500 so they were flying illegally low). There is a good reason for flight rules! You can check wikipedia.com for a full narative of the accident that is accurate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_New_Zealand_Flight_901

strato volcanoe

no, the crash happened because the coordinates of the flight path were changed without the captains knowledge.

He did not have a 'job', Erebus was the (god of) darkness.

The Greek god Erebus was the personifcation of darkness whose dark mists enveloped the edges of the world, and filled the deep hollows of the earth. It was Nyx that took a veil of these mists to the upper air and made night possible. The name Erebos was also used for the dismal, netherworld realm of Haides.

Mount Erebus the most active volcano in Antarctica is located at 77.53 degrees south and 167. 17 degrees east.

It's a composite volcano (also known as stratovolcano), which means that it has a big eruption followed by small lava flows. A composite volcano is the deadliest type of volcano and is also the biggest kind.

Erebus belongs to no country, nor does any part of the earth south of 60 degrees South latitude, which includes the continent of Antarctica.

Since the volcano was first documented at the turn of the last century, it could have happened at any time before that.

If you mean what form is it then it is a stratovolcano, if you mean how did it form it formed by: volcanic activity in Antarctica is limited to only a few places, the most notable being Mount Erebus on Ross Island. The island is entirely of volcanic origin, as are White and Black Islands, Brown Peninsula and Mina Bluff, and the massifs of Mounts Discovery and Morning. These are products of eruptions--from the Pliocene through the present--of basaltic lavas from central cones and fissures at various locations. Mount Erebus is the largest and by far the most active of the few volcanoes on the continent, almost continuously spewing out steam and gases from its summit crater

No one survived this crash.

No cities or towns, but two scientific stations: McMurdo operated by the United States and Scott Base operated by New Zealand.

This disaster took place in 1979 when a tourist flight crashed into the side of this active volcano on the Antarctic continent. All 270 souls aboard were lost.

Because of the remote location of the crash, search and recovery became journeys unto themselves.

You can read more about Air New Zealand Flight 901, below.

Erebus is shaped like most volcanoes -- like an upside-down cone.

By Sir James Clark Ross on the 27th January 1841